So if I put something in a superconducting cavity, and seal it closed, then put that inside a vacuum chamber, and magnetically suspend the whole thing, the contents of that cavity break off into their own reality until the container is re-opened?
Interesting idea, seems like part of the plot device of the movie Primer.
Sounds much like the Buddhist doctrine of dependent arising to me:
> It states that all dharmas (phenomena) arise in dependence upon other dharmas: "if this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist". The basic principle is that all things (dharmas, phenomena, principles) arise in dependence upon other things.
It's not really different from the parallel realities interpretation.
The dead and alive cats exist in separate, parallel universes, each totally unaware of the existence of any other universe than its own, and when the experimenter opens the box that "chooses" one of these two cats to be the only one real for the experimenter, i.e. the wave function collapses.
So it's like Christopher Langan says, a Self-Processing language. Feed the right lisp program as input to itself, you get our universe.
Entanglement makes sense from the respect of lazily evaluated expressions/dependencies. Once a dependency is needed, reality finally does the collapse/injection. But there is no real collapse, just a change in correlations that allows for a large expression to be simplified. And that can be undone, as illustrated through quantum eraser experiments.
Basically, we are just nested expressions of everything we interacted with in the past. And perhaps the primordial atom that all expressions inherit is the big bang..a sort of () in lisp :-)
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[ 1.4 ms ] story [ 40.4 ms ] threadInteresting idea, seems like part of the plot device of the movie Primer.
> It states that all dharmas (phenomena) arise in dependence upon other dharmas: "if this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist". The basic principle is that all things (dharmas, phenomena, principles) arise in dependence upon other things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prat%C4%ABtyasamutp%C4%81da
The dead and alive cats exist in separate, parallel universes, each totally unaware of the existence of any other universe than its own, and when the experimenter opens the box that "chooses" one of these two cats to be the only one real for the experimenter, i.e. the wave function collapses.
pretty sure it's not mirrors though.
Entanglement makes sense from the respect of lazily evaluated expressions/dependencies. Once a dependency is needed, reality finally does the collapse/injection. But there is no real collapse, just a change in correlations that allows for a large expression to be simplified. And that can be undone, as illustrated through quantum eraser experiments.
Basically, we are just nested expressions of everything we interacted with in the past. And perhaps the primordial atom that all expressions inherit is the big bang..a sort of () in lisp :-)